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Montreal to host Fed Cup playoff By Stephanie Myles, The Gazette March 8, 2010 MONTREAL – Tennis Canada hasn't yet made an official announcement. But the International Tennis Federation has announced the venues for the World Group I and World Group II playoff ties, which will take place the weekend of April 24-25, on its Fed Cup website. Montreal's Uniprix Stadium will host the tie between Canada and Argentina. The talk had been that it was between Montreal and Toronto, but Montreal is obviously a no-brainer, given the high quota of Québécoises on the squad. The team won't be picked until closer to the actual dates, but it's very possible the entire four-woman team will be from Quebec: Aleksandra Wozniak, Stéphanie Dubois, Valérie Tétreault and doubles specialist Marie-Eve Pelletier. Toronto's Sharon Fichman also is in the mix. The last time Canada had a home playoff tie in World Group II, against the Israelis in April 2007, all four members of the team were from Quebec. But Tennis Canada decided to stage it in the tennis hotbed of Kamloops, B.C. Fan support was dismal; hosting it here will surely result in better support for the local players. The Argentines shouldn't be up to the task on a fast indoor court. The ladies have a good – no, great – shot at getting back into World Group II. The Montreal Gazette
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La Réserve fédérale américaine tente de relancer le marché du crédit en annonçant l'achat de 300 milliards de dollars de bons du Trésor et le maintien de son principal taux d'intérêt. Pour en lire plus... -
Au lendemain de l'injection de 30milliards supplémentaires pour sauver AIG, le président de la Réserve fédérale américaine, Ben Bernanke, qualifie l'assureur d'irresponsable. Pour en lire plus...
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Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January Article Tools Sponsored By By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Published: February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON — The United States lost almost 600,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 7.6 percent, its highest level in more than 16 years, the Labor Department said Friday. It was the biggest monthly job loss since the economy tipped into a recession more than a year ago, and it was even worse than most forecasters had been predicting. In addition, the government revised the estimates for previous months to include another 400,000 job losses. For December, the government revised the job loss to 577,000 compared with an initial reading of 524,000. Over all, it said, the nation has lost 3.6 million jobs since it slipped into a recession in December 2007. “Businesses are panicked and fighting for survival and slashing their payrolls,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “I think we’re trapped in a very adverse, self-reinforcing cycle. The downturn is intensifying, and likely to intensify further unless policy makers respond aggressively.” Despite the jobless number, Wall Street opened strongly with all three major exchanges up more than 1.5 percent. As in previous months, employers in January slashed their payrolls in almost every industry except health care Manufacturers eliminated 207,000 jobs, more than in any year since 1982. The construction industry eliminated 111,000 jobs. And retailers, who were wrapping up their worst holiday shopping season in years, eliminated 45,000 jobs. One modest exception to the bad news was in workers’ wages, which have thus far not reflected the dramatic plunge in employment. Hour earnings edged up to $18.46, up 5 cents, and average weekly earnings climbed $614.72, up $1.67. But over all, the new data reinforced the impression of an economy that has become increasingly trapped a vicious circle slumping consumer demand, falling business investment, rising unemployment and mounting losses in the banking system. Christina D. Romer, head of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, said the report reinforced the need for Washington to acted quickly on a economic stimulus package. “If we fail to act,” Ms. Romer said, “we are likely to lose millions more jobs and the unemployment rate could reach double digits.” Although the United States officially slipped into a recession in December 2007, the decline was erratic and temporarily disguised by the impact of the emergency tax-rebate last spring. Since September, analysts say, economic activity suddenly plunged on almost every front. The monthly pace of job losses shot up to about 500,000 a month for the last three months of 2008, and the new report offered no hint that bottom is in sight. Last week, the number of Americans filing first-time jobless claims reached a 26-year high, with 626,000 filling out initial applications. “This is a horror show we’re watching,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-of-center economic research organization in Washington. “By every measure available-loss of employment and hours, rise of unemployment, shrinkage of the employment to population rate- this recession is steeper than any recession of the last forty years, including the harsh recession of the early 1980s.” Most forecasters had predicted that the economy would lose about 540,000 in January. Instead, the Labor Department estimated that 598,000 jobs disappeared. To be sure, monthly payroll numbers are subject to big revisions in the months that follow. But most other indicators of the job market had been trending worse as well. Major retailers, rocked by one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in memory, have been shutting stores and laying of armies of workers in recent weeks. On Thursday, the nation’s retailers reported that sales fell 1.6 percent in January, the fourth consecutive month of steep sales declines. And in sign that the country’s slowdown continues to reach beyond its borders, Canada, America’s largest trading partner, reported Friday that its unemployment rate jumped to 7.2 percent in January, from 6.7 percent in December. In Washington, Friday’s gloomy job report put more pressure on Congress to pass an economic stimulus bill. The House passed a bill last week that would provide more than $800 billion in spending and tax cuts. In the Senate, still bogged down by objections from Republicans, lawmakers were hoping to be able to muster enough votes to pass a measure on Friday “Today’s unemployment numbers are even worse than we thought,” said Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who leads the House Financial Services Committee. “If anything can persuade Congressional Republicans to stop their hyper partisan sniping at the recovery package, these disastrous employment numbers should be it.” For comparison, the unemployment rate was 4.9 percent in January 2008. But some analysts contend that the current unemployment rate of 7.6 percent understates the labor market’s problems because the percentage of adults participating in the labor force has slumped in recent years, and those people are not listed as “unemployed.” Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland, estimated that if the labor force participation rate today was as high as it was when President Bush took office, the unemployment rate would be 9.4 percent. Ian Shepherdson, chief North American economist for High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y., said the government had become the only source of energy left to break the cycle of slumping demand for goods and falling production. “The public sector needs to act,” Mr. Shepherdson wrote in a note to clients. “It needs to prevent an endless spiral of attempts to increase saving, leading to reduced spending, leading to reduced incomes, leading to further attempts to raise savings, and so on.” “We remain firmly of the view that the package now in Congress is the bare minimum required to slow the shrinkage of the economy over the next year.” Many economists expect that the economy will continue to contract until July at the very least, but at a slowing pace in the second quarter. That would make it the longest recession since the 1930s, outlasting the two record-holders, the mid-1970s and early 1980s downturns. Each of these recessions lasted 16 months. The current recession, which started in December 2007, would reach that milestone in April. The Federal Reserve continues to pump money into the financial system at a furious pace. Since September, the central bank has more than doubled its reserves, from $900 billion to more than $2 trillion, by literally creating new money. The Fed has used some of that money to help bail out financial institutions, from Citigroup and Bank of America to the American International Group. It has been pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into new lending programs, stepping in for banks and other financial institutions to buy up a widening array of corporate debt. Later this month, the Fed will begin a $200 billion program, in conjunction with the Treasury, to finance consumer debt ranging from car loans and credit card debt to student loans. But analysts say that the big problem is not a shortage of money, but a shortage of demand for products by businesses and consumers. As a result, banks are overloaded with excess reserves, made available by the Fed, which they are often simply parking at the Fed. _________________________________________________________________________ Les Américains payent le gros prix pour les banquiers de Walt Street, je n`ai pas de pitié pour eux, ils ont plongé le monde en crise, en ce sens, ils méritent grandement les conséquences...
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Politique monétaire: la Fed a besoin de «mécanismes alternatifs»
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La banque centrale américaine doit inventer «des mécanismes alternatifs» maintenant que ses taux directeurs ont été ramenés à pratiquement zéro. Pour en lire plus... -
Le président de la Réserve fédérale des États-Unis, Ben Bernanke, a estimé mardi que son institution disposait encore «d'outils puissants» contre la crise, et a jugé essentiel que les gouvernements coopèrent pour la combattre. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine a revu en «forte baisse» ses prévisions de croissance pour l'économie des États-Unis en 2009, et «continue de prévoir une reprise modérée en 2010». Pour en lire plus...
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Les marchés boursiers nord-américains étaient en forte hausse moins d'une heure avant la clôture mardi, dopée par l'action de la Réserve fédérale qui a réduit son taux directeur pratiquement à zéro. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve Fédérale américaine a décidé de donner un énorme coup de barre à l’économie américaine en abaissant son taux directeur dans une marge qui se situe entre 0 et 0,25 %. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine cherche une plus grande flexibilité financière pour faire face à la crise, affirme le Wall Street Journal mercredi. Pour en lire plus...
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Lundi dernier, le président de la Réserve fédérale américaine, Ben Bernanke, a entrouvert la porte à un nouveau moyen pour stimuler l'économie : acheter des obligations à long terme du Trésor américain pour redonner des liquidités au marché. Pour en lire plus...
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Les facilités de crédits d'urgence de la Fed pour les firmes d'investissements sont couvertes par la décision. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine (Fed) envisage de continuer à baisser son taux d'intérêt directeur et de mettre en place de nouvelles facilités de crédit, alors que les conditions des marchés financiers ont continué à se détériorer, affirme lundi le Wall Street Journal. Pour en lire plus...
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La Bourse de New York plonge à ses plus bas niveaux depuis cinq après le sombre diagnostic de Réserve fédérale sur l'état de l'économie américaine. Pour en lire plus...
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Selon les dernières prévisions, la Fed pense désormais que le produit intérieur brut devrait être égal ou augmenter très légèrement de 0,3% cette année. Il devrait se contracter de 1,1% l'an prochain Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine a annoncé mercredi qu'elle augmentait le taux auquel elle rémunère depuis peu les réserves obligatoires et excédentaires des banques placées en dépôt chez elle. Pour en lire plus...
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L'ancien président de la Fed reconnaît que la crise actuelle qui frappe les États-Unis est beaucoup plus importante que ce qu'il aurait pu imaginer. Pour en lire plus...
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L'ancien patron de la Fed était un des principaux témoins à comparaître devant un comité de la Chambre des représentants chargé d'interroger d'anciens acteurs financiers au sujet des raisons de la crise. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine augmentera les taux d'intérêt destinés à rémunérer les excédents des réserves financières. Pour en lire plus...
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La Fed rachètera des billets de trésorerie aux fonds de pension
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La Réserve fédérale américaine a annoncé mardi qu'elle allait commencer à racheter des billets de trésorerie, pour soutenir les fonds de pension américains. Pour en lire plus... -
Le président de la Réserve fédérale américaine, Ben Bernanke, se dit favorable à la mise sur pied d'un second plan de relance afin de lutter contre le ralentissement de la première économie mondiale. Pour en lire plus...
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Avec une économie qui sera probablement faible pendant plusieurs trimestres, l'examen d'un plan budgétaire par le Congrès dans le contexte actuel semble approprié, dit le patron de la Fed. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine étudie la possibilité de baisser davantage ses taux d'intérêts pour stimuler l'économie, étant donné que l'inflation montre des signes de recul. Pour en lire plus...
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Aux Etats-Unis, l'activité économique «a faibli en septembre», selon le Livre beige de la Réserve fédérale américaine confirmant les craintes que la première économie mondiale soit entrée en récession. Pour en lire plus...
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La Réserve fédérale américaine (Fed) a approuvé l'acquisition de la banque américaine Wachovia, en faillite, par sa concurrente Wells Fargo, pour un montant de 11,7 milliards de dollars (8,6 milliards d'euros), a-t-on appris dimanche dans une brève déclaration de la Fed. Pour en lire plus...
